James W. SAWYER dies in Danville (1976)

This obituary is courtesy of Karen Zach.

Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana) - issue of Tuesday, February 17, 1976:

NORTH SALEM – James W. Sawyer, 68, of North Salem, died Sunday in Hendricks County Hospital. He had been in failing health for several years and was a retired construction worker. He attended Waverly schools. Born March 24, 1907, he was a son of John and Viola Armstrong Sawyer of Waverly. He was married to Irene Johnson in October 1951. Survivors are his wife; a brother, Lonnie of Waverly; a stepson, Donald Russell of Danville; five daughters, Cheryl Jones and Debbie Sawyer of North Salem, Deloris Surber of Clermont, and Janet Davis and Phyllis Ballard both of Indianapolis; four sons, Jeff, Robert and Dale, all at home, and Richard of Greencastle; and 14 grandchildren. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Porter Funeral Home with the Rev. Earl Davis officiating. Burial in Waverly Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening.

Death of Arminta (SAWYER) JORDAN (1941)

source: Friday Caller (Plainfield, Indiana) - issue of Thursday, April 17, 1941 - page 1, column 4:

MRS. ARMINTA JORDAN DIES AT AGE OF 81 YEARS
Mrs. Arminta Sawyer Jordan, age 81 years, a resident of Plainfield for fifty-five years, died last Thursday morning at the McCormick nursing home at Clayton.

She was born April 4, 1860 on a farm west of Hazelwood, at the time located in Morgan County. She lived here until her marriage to George Jordan who died forty years ago. Just before her marriage the county line was relocated and the farm placed in Hendricks County. Thus was she born in Morgan County and married in Hendricks [County], in the same house. She is the last of a family of eighteen children.

She was an active member of the Plainfield Christian Church and auxiliary organizations and for a number of years was a Rebekah.

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Hall funeral establishment here with the Rev. Mr. Lett, Danville Christian minister in charge of the service. Burial was in Maple Hill Cemetery.

Surviving are two sons, Orla G. Jordan, Plainfield and Omer Jordan of Oklahoma City, Okla.; four grandchildren, Willard Jordan, Plainfield; Mrs. Norris Porter, Danville; Mrs. Lester Laughlin, Memphis, Tennl. and George Jordan, Oklahoma City, and one great-grandson, Charles Porter, Danville.

Ellis SAWYER paroled from Indiana State Reformatory (1907)

As mentioned in Hendricks County Circuit Court Civil Order Book Volume 52 (March 1907 - February 1908), Ellis Sawyer (case #4433) had been committed to the Indiana State Reformatory in Jeffersonville on November 7, 1904 and paroled on July 20, 1906. In August 1907, he was fully discharged.

Paul SAWYER of Liberty Township Files For Divorce (1934)

source: The Republican (Danville, Indiana) - issue of Thursday, May 3, 1934 - page 8, column 2:

SEEKS DIVORCE
Paul O. Sawyer of Liberty Township, filed suit for a divorce from his wife, Harriet A. Sawyer, Tuesday, in the local clerk's office. The plaintiff alleges cruel and inhuman treatment. They were married in 1931 and separated in October of last year.